Better late than never, I always say.
Today in 1914 and this week in 1914 the following things happened:
Jan 22nd – Paul Claudel's "L'échange," premieres in Paris
Jan 24th – Opera "Madeleine," premieres in NYC
Jan 26th – 600 Dutch textile workers go on strike
Jan 26th – Vatican puts Belgian Nobel winner Maeterlinck's works in their index
Jan 28th – 1st Millrose Games (athletics) held (NYC)
Author and Nobel Laureate Gerhart Hauptmann ‘s Der Bogen des Odysseus was on premere in Berlin.
Jan 28th – Beverly Hills, Ca, is incorporated. ( Much to the rest of the country’s regret.
In Austria-Hungary , the country was geographically the second largest country in Europe after the Russian Empire, and the third most populous (after Russia and the German Empire). The Austro-Hungarian Empire consisted of two monarchies (Austria and Hungary), and two autonomous countries: Polish Galicia within the Austrian Empire (from 1867) and Croatia within the Kingdom of Hungary (from 1868). Bosnia and Herzegovina and Sandžak-Raška were under Austro-Hungarian military occupation between 1878 and 1908, when the former was fully annexed and the latter was ceded to the Ottoman Empire. The Emperor of Austria and King of Hungary was Franz Josef, who had been on the throne since 1867. Carl Bechtold was the Minister President of Austria. The deaths of Franz Joseph's brother, Maximilian (1867), and his only son, Rudolf made the Emperor's nephew, Franz Ferdinand, heir to the throne. ( You will hear that name again. :-) ).